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Re: NULL

1994-10-22 07:31:45
michael(_dot_)derrico(_at_)software(_dot_)com (Michael D'Errico) writes:
First on the NULL issue, the problem seems to be moot for email TRANSPORT 
and
will soon only exist in user agents. 

There are significantly more user agents than transports out there,
saying the problem "only" exists in user agents is not making a strong
statement.

User agents are unrelated to the issue.

If a user uses encoding including NULL, his agent is designed to
accept NULL.

If not, regardless of how NULL is treated by a user agent, the
message containing NULL is wrongly encoded and unreadable.

There are also such various and sundry things such as POP servers,
final-delivery agents (deliver, vacation), mail servers, and so on
which are likely to have problems with NUL.  Also, the existing News
transport cannot deal with NUL.

So, they are broken.

Let motivate implementor's to do he necessary change so that
the transition to binary will be smooth, which is actually
happening on various transports.

                                                Masataka Ohta

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